Cancer survival statistics for patients and healthcare professionals - a tutorial of real-world data analysis.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:A description of the clinical presentation, diagnostic procedure and mode of therapy in three patients suffering from chronic mesenteric ischaemia. DESIGN AND INTERVENTIONS:In all cases, the diagnosis was made on the basis of abdominal complaints in combination with angiographic findings. The primary treatm...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Hoogenberg K,Van Essen LH,Van den Dungen JJ,Limburg AJ,Boeve WJ,Kleibeuker JH

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on the determinants of longevity in the industrialized world, with emphasis on results from recently established data bases. Strong evidence is now available that demonstrates that in developed countries the maximum lifespan as well as the mean lifespan have increased substantially over the past ce...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Christensen K,Vaupel JW

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer is a genetic disease caused by 'gain of function' mutations of oncogenes and 'loss of function' mutations of tumour suppressors and of genes involved in DNA repair mechanisms. The RET gene encodes a tyrosine kinase receptor for molecules belonging to the glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) family...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Santoro M,Melillo RM,Carlomagno F,Visconti R,De Vita G,Salvatore G,Lupoli G,Fusco A,Vecchio G

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder believed to be exclusively caused by mutations in the CYP27A1 gene coding for the enzyme sterol 27-hydroxylase. Common findings in CTX are tendon xanthomas, cataracts and progressive neurological dysfunction. Here, we characterize an adult fem...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Hansson M,Olin M,Floren CH,von Bahr S,van't Hooft F,Meaney S,Eggertsen G,Björkhem I

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Small LDL particle size has been shown to be associated with coronary artery disease. However, no previous study has been performed relating LDL particle size to ultrasound measurement of atherosclerosis in hypercholesterolaemic subjects. The main aims of the present study were therefore: (i) to investigate ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Hulthe J,Wiklund O,Bondjers G,Wikstrand J

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although numerous multicentre studies have estimated the association between ozone exposure and mortality, there are currently no nationally representative multicentre studies of the ozone-mortality relationship in China. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effect on total (nonaccidental) and cause-specific mortal...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Sun Q,Wang W,Chen C,Ban J,Xu D,Zhu P,He MZ,Li T

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:APOA5 encodes a novel apolipoprotein (apo A-V) which appears to be a modulator of plasma triglyceride (TG). In apoA5 knock out mice plasma TG level increases almost fourfold, whereas in human APOA5 transgenic mice it decreases by 70%. Some SNPs in the APOA5 gene have been associated with variations in plasma TG in hum...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Priore Oliva C,Carubbi F,Schaap FG,Bertolini S,Calandra S

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe the mortality and mode of death over 5 years, and factors associated with death amongst patients with acute chest pain. PATIENTS:All patients who came to the emergency department at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Göteborg with acute chest pain or other symptoms raising suspicion of acute myocardial infarction...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Herlitz J,Karlson BW,Lindqvist J,Sjölin M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is a silent chronic vascular pathology that is the cause of the majority of cardiovascular ischaemic events. The evolution of vascular disease involves a combination of endothelial dysfunction, extensive lipid deposition in the intima, exacerbated innate and adaptive immune responses, proliferation of ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Badimon L,Vilahur G

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of sleeping in the head-up tilt (HUT) position, alone and in combination with fludrocortisone, on orthostatic tolerance and blood pressure (BP) in six patients with hypoadrenergic orthostatic hypotension. A high salt diet of 150-200 mmol Na+ d-1 was also administered. Combined treatment reduced o...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Ten Harkel AD,Van Lieshout JJ,Wieling W

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate (i) the demineralizing effect of L-thyroxine (LT4) therapy at doses mildly inhibiting serum thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) in patients with benign nodular goitre; (ii) the efficacy of treatment on nodule size. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study comparing euthyroid women with nodular goitre treated ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Baldini M,Gallazzi M,Orsatti A,Fossati S,Leonardi P,Cantalamessa L

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prions represent a group of proteins with a unique capacity to fold into different conformations. One isoform is rich in beta-pleated sheets and can aggregate into amyloid that may be pathogenic. This abnormal form propagates itself by imposing its confirmation on the homologous normal host cell protein. Pathogenic pr...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Norrby E

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that asymptomatic visual field defects can be found in patients with carotid transient ischaemic attacks (TIA) or minor strokes was tested. Twenty-two consecutive male patients with TIA and 18 patients with minor strokes from the carotid artery territory were examined by perimetry, cerebral computerised...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Falke P,Abela BM Jr,Krakau CE,Lilja B,Lindgärde F,Maly P,Stavenow L

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Angiotensin II may play an important role in the progression of renal disease. Currently, angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor antagonists are commonly used for renoprotection. To our knowledge, there is no study investigating this effect of angiotensin II receptor antag...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Usta M,Ersoy A,Dilek K,Ozdemir B,Yavuz M,Güllülü M,Yurtkuran M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum creatine kinase (CK) is an important adjunct in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction or in monitoring for the side-effects of drugs. We report elevation of CK in patients with untreated heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) with no evidence of myocardial infarction. Of a group of 30 patients, 60% ha...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Bhatnagar D,Durrington PN,Neary R,Miller JP

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current tuberculosis (TB) vaccine bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) fails to protect against adult pulmonary TB. Yet, its capacity to control miliary TB in newborn infants forms the basis for development of novel vaccine candidates. These either exploit genetic modification of BCG to create a viable replacement vacci...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Kaufmann SH

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1280 80-year-old men were invited to a medical examination to study common risk indicators for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the elderly. From the pool of 811 responders (63.3%), all 122 individuals who fulfilled our inclusion criteria were assigned to one of four groups: (1) no CVD, non-smokers; (2) no C...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Stavenow L,Elmståhl S,Jerntorp P,Nilsson-Ehle P,Pessah-Rasmussen H,Galvard H,Hansen F,Samuelsson SM

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Sweden, prophylactic treatment of boys with severe haemophilia has been practised since 1958 in an attempt to convert the disease from a severe to a milder form. The present study population consisted of 60 severe haemophiliacs (52 A, 8 B), aged 3-32 years. Treatment is started when the boys are 1-2 years of age, t...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Nilsson IM,Berntorp E,Löfqvist T,Pettersson H

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commonly recorded blood analyses as indicators of low- and-high risk patients with lung cancer were studied by comparing symptom- and survey-detected patients. During the period 1976-1985, in 41 of 189 non-small-cell lung cancer patients in Western Norway, lung cancer was detected by chest X-ray survey performed in th...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Hannisdal E,Engan T

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neutrophil granules store proteins that are critically important for the neutrophil to move from the vascular bed to tissues and to kill microorganisms. This is illustrated in nature when individual proteins are deleted due to inherited mutations of their cognate genes, and such deficiencies result in the conditions l...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Häger M,Cowland JB,Borregaard N

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonal haematopoiesis results from acquired mutations in haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). These mutations can confer the HSPC with a competitive advantage, leading to their clonal expansion within the limiting bone marrow niche. This process is often insufficient to produce a haematologic malignancy; ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Min KD,Kour A,Sano S,Walsh K

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to determine the incidence of malignant disease (MD) in adult patients with nephrotic syndrome (NS). Eighty-eight consecutive patients (38 females; 50 males; mean age 47 years; range 15-86) seen in a renal clinic in a 13-year period with NS were studied. Eight of the patients had or de...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Lund L,Jacobsen BA,Schmidt EB

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated skeletal involvement in five male and two female patients with ochronosis, aged 26-82 years. The main parameters of mineral metabolism, together with biochemical markers of bone resorption (urinary N-telopeptides of type I collagen) and formation (serum bone isoenzyme of alkaline phosphatase and serum ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Aliberti G,Pulignano I,Schiappoli A,Minisola S,Romagnoli E,Proietta M

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare foreign- and Swedish-born diabetic subjects regarding health care utilization, complications, clinical and socio-economic characteristics. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study. SETTING:All known diabetic patients living in six defined primary health care districts. SUBJECTS:Of 1861 identified subjects ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Hjelm K,Apelqvist J,Nyberg P,Sundquist J,Isacsson A

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To ascertain whether carotid intraplaque haemorrhage (IH) in patients undergoing carotid artery surgery is a predictor of increased cardiac mortality over a 5.5 year follow-up. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS:Carotid artery plaques were obtained at surgery from 47 consecutive patients (41 men, six women), median age 67 ...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Falke P,Mätzsch T,Sternby NH,Bergqvist D,Stavenow L

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six patients with acute renal failure, in five cases due to acute crescentic glomerulonephritis and in one case due to total bilateral renal cortical necrosis, were studied. All had serum erythropoietin (EPO) concentrations in the normal range, despite a relatively severe anaemia. Half-life and plasma clearance of int...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Thaysen JH,Nielsen OJ,Brandi L,Szpirt W

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Sunlight exposure of the skin is known to be the most important source of vitamin D. The aims of this study were: (i) to estimate vitamin D status amongst sunlight-deprived individuals (veiled Arab women, veiled ethnic Danish Moslem women and Danish controls); and (ii) through food intake analysis to estimat...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Glerup H,Mikkelsen K,Poulsen L,Hass E,Overbeck S,Thomsen J,Charles P,Eriksen EF

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the epidemiology, pathogenesis and clinical features of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with acute intermittent porphyria (AIP). DESIGN:A retrospective population-based mortality study. SUBJECTS:All inhabitants who died between 1978-1990 (2122) including 33 with AIP, in two municipali...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Andersson C,Bjersing L,Lithner F

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of pro-oxidant/antioxidant dietary factors in relation to individual susceptibility to cancer and cardiovascular disease is justified based on a review of the literature. This working hypothesis is amendable to further scientific validation from biomarkers with end-point sensitivity to oxygen radicals. So f...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Pero RW,Berglund G,Christie NT,Cosma GN,Frenkel K,Garte SJ,Janzon L,Olsson A,Seidegård J,Smulson ME

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current strategies for prevention of cardiovascular disease focus on risk factor intervention. Although these have been proven both safe and effective results from randomized clinical trials suggest that it is difficult to achieve relative risk reductions exceeding 40% with this approach. To further improve efficacy f...

journal_title：Journal of internal medicine

authors： Nilsson J,Fredrikson GN,Björkbacka H,Chyu KY,Shah PK

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00